A filler word usually meaning "but"
It can be added in the beginning, middle, or the end of a sentence.
It can be added in the beginning, middle, or the end of a sentence.
Example
Mara why it is so expensive?
He's good looking mara he's not a good person.
Why do we have to be so broke, mara?
Example
Hey voetsek wena spottie. Go away.
A Xhosa term that is used to refer to a castrated animal (an animal whose balls/testicles have been cut off).
Example
This cow can't make kids because yi nkabi.
WOT is the abbreviation for Woman on top, a sex position where the woman goes on top of the man.
Example
She is the best when it comes to WOT.
Gbedu
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Music, especially a hard-hitting danceable beat.
Example
Turn up the gbedu, make we dance.
It is a Venda name which means protection.
Example
People use condoms as a way of protection.
Ekurhuleni is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of the East Rand region of Gauteng, a large suburban region east of Johannesburg. Ekurhuleni means "place of peace" in XiTsonga.
Example
I prefer Ekurhuleni over City of Johannesburg.
Umkhwetha (plural: abakhwetha) is an initiate (a boy going through the circumcisions/initiation period) in Xhosa.
Example
Umkhwetha has to eat food without salt for the first few days
Sheleni is a slang term for R0.10 (ten cents).
Example
I'm so broke I don't even have isheleni under my name.
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